The Kinks (album)

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Kinks
Kinks cover
Studio album by The Kinks
Released Original: 2 October 1964 (UK)
Re-released: 6 July 2004
Recorded late August 1964, Pye Studios No.2
"I Took My Baby Home": 24 January, Pye Studios No.1
"You Really Got Me": July 1964, IBC Studios
Genre Beat, R&B
Length 32:55 (Original release)
59:13 (2004 reissue)
Label Pye NPL 18096 (UK)
Reprise R-6143 (USA)
Producer Shel Talmy
Professional reviews
The Kinks chronology
The Kinks
(1964)		 Kinda Kinks
(1965)
USA packaging
"You Really Got Me" l.p. cover
"You Really Got Me" l.p. cover

Kinks is the self-titled debut album by English rock band, The Kinks. It was released with an altered track-listing in the United States as "You Really Got Me".

It was re-released in 2004 with twelve bonus tracks on the label Sanctuary.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Ray Davies except as noted

[edit] Kinks UK original tracklisting

[edit] Side 1

  1. "Beautiful Delilah" (Chuck Berry) – 2:07
  2. "So Mystifying" – 2:53
  3. "Just Can't Go to Sleep" – 1:58
  4. "Long Tall Shorty" (Herb Abramson, Don Covay) – 2:50
  5. "I Took My Baby Home" – 1:48
  6. "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter" (J. Miller) – 2:03
  7. "You Really Got Me" – 2:13

[edit] Side 2

  1. "Cadillac" (E. McDaniel) – 2:44
  2. "Bald Headed Woman" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy) – 2:41
  3. "Revenge" (R. Davies, Larry Page) – 1:29
  4. "Too Much Monkey Business" (Chuck Berry) – 2:16
  5. "I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy) – 2:01
  6. "Stop Your Sobbing" – 2:06
  7. "Got Love If You Want It" (J. Moore) – 3:46

UK release: 2 October 1964 (Pye NPL 18096 mono: NSPL 83021 stereo)

[edit] 2004 CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Long Tall Sally" (Robert Blackwell, Enotris Johnson, Richard Penniman) – 2:12
  2. "You Still Want Me" – 1:59
  3. "You Do Something to Me" – 2:24
  4. "It's Alright" – 2:37
  5. "All Day and All of the Night" – 2:23
  6. "I Gotta Move" – 2:22
  7. "Louie, Louie" (Richard Berry) – 2:57
  8. "I Gotta Go Now" – 2:53
  9. "Things Are Getting Better" – 1:52
  10. "I've Got That Feeling" – 2:43
  11. "Too Much Monkey Business" [Alternate Take] (C. Berry) – 2:10
  12. "I Don't Need You Any More" – 2:10

[edit] You Really Got Me (USA, Reprise R-6143 tracklisting)

[edit] Side 1

  1. "Beautiful Delilah" (Chuck Berry)
  2. "So Mystifying"
  3. "Just Can't Go To Sleep"
  4. "Long Tall Shorty" (Herb Abramson, Don Covay)
  5. "You Really Got Me"

[edit] Side 2

  1. "Cadillac" (E. McDaniel)
  2. "Bald Headed Woman" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy)
  3. "Too Much Monkey Business" (Chuck Berry)
  4. "I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain" (Trad/Arr Shel Talmy)
  5. "Stop Your Sobbing"
  6. "Got Love If You Want It" (Harper)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] External links

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